{"id":180582,"date":"2016-09-22T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=180582"},"modified":"2016-09-22T17:54:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:54:37","slug":"twitters-latest-transparency-report-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/180582-twitters-latest-transparency-report-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter&#8217;s latest transparency report released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has published its <a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>transparency report<\/strong><\/a> for the first half of 2016, highlighting trends in legal requests it&#8217;s received, intellectual property-related requests, and email privacy best practices.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Twitter received 5,676 government and non-government requests for account information. There were no requests from South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter complied with 69% of the requests in some manner.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter received 4,434 <a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.twitter.com\/en\/removal-requests.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>removal requests<\/strong><\/a> from government agencies and police, and a further 761 requests through court orders.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said the removal requests were generally regarding content that may be illegal in a specific jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>One of these requests came from South Africa, but Twitter did not comply with the request.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/180168-twitter-removes-character-limit-on-additional-content.html\"><strong>Twitter removes character limit on additional content<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/179316-deezer-and-twitter-partner-for-music-sharing.html\">Deezer and Twitter partner for music sharing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/179324-twitter-in-live-streaming-partnership.html\">Twitter in live-streaming partnership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has published its latest transparency report, highlighting trends in legal requests it has received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-180582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180588,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180582\/revisions\/180588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}